pseudocleft

adj

Etymology

From pseudo- + cleft.

  1. inherited from *kluftiz
  2. inherited from *klufti
  3. inherited from ġeclyft
  4. inherited from clift
  5. prefixed as pseudocleft — “pseudo + cleft

Definitions

  1. Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.

    • Given that Malagasy has wh-in-situ questions, the pseudocleft analysis is simply an extension of this strategy, in which the wh-phrase is in-situ as a predicate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudocleft. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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